Trai recommendations on data ownership, privacy by December end or January

The authority is also planning to bring out recommendations on next spectrum auctions, within this financial year, even as operators have sought more time to submit their views.

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Updated: Oct 26, 2017, 05.38 PM IST

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The chairman added that recommendations emerging from data privacy, ownership and security consultations, may also be subsumed into government-created committee on data protection.

NEW DELHI: The telecom regulator plans to issue recommendations on data ownership, privacy and security in telecom sector, by the year end or January next year, while it is in the final phases of issuing recommendations on net neutrality, a top official said.

The authority is also planning to bring out recommendations on next spectrum auctions, within this financial year, even as operators have sought for more time to submit their views.

"Usually operators ask for weeks, this time they've asked for months... We won't be giving them extensions indefinitely," Trai chairman RS Sharma said at a Ficci event Thursday.

"The recommendations should come out within this fiscal," he added.

The chairman added that recommendations emerging from data privacy, ownership and security consultations, may also be subsumed into government-created committee on data protection, besides being standalone suggestions for the telecom sector.

"Recommendations should come by December-January," he added.

On the other burning issue of net neutrality will also be brought out soon, which will be framed keeping in mind local market dynamics. "We're in the final stages of issuing recommendations on net neutrality," the regulator said.